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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 8, 2019 11:37:06 GMT -5
Now we've reached 1987. Action Force, which ran for 50 issues, often had great covers: Saw some of these and the revived Captain Britain at the first comic shop I encountered, when I was in college. Most of the Marvel UK weeklies I have encountered were from around this time, as some of the US distributors must have been importing them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 14:29:19 GMT -5
Right, 1988. Who remembers these? I need to read more of this guy: I did own this (another one lost to time): I had a few of these: The Marvel Bumper Comic presented several strips in each issue ("Combat Colin", "The Incredible Hulk", "The Real Ghostbusters", etc.): The Ghostbusters had their own comic which ran for 141 issues! 1987's RoboCop got adapted: And here's the Visionaries: Although superhero titles/annuals/specials were still being published, you can see Marvel UK was putting out a diverse range of titles, mainly licensed stuff. And it seems one could never have enough free badges, holograms, stickers, etc...
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 8, 2019 15:46:52 GMT -5
In Captain America #169 the original Tumbler was killed by the original Moonstone, who made it appear Cap had murdered him. This was part of a plot to discredit Cap by the Committee to Regain America's Principles (CRAP), a front for the Secret Empire. The Tumbler's brother assumed the identity, assisting Cap in CA #291 by Bill Mantlo and Herb Trimpe. He is said to have appeared in Avengers/JLA #4.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jul 8, 2019 16:05:20 GMT -5
This Marvel Omnibus, which I think reprinted 5 stories, is cool - and I wish I still had it: According to spiderfan.org, the stories reprinted were from Amazing Spider-Man #282, Iron Man #217, Incredible Hulk #314, Captain America #291 and Uncanny X-Men #213. link
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 1:39:29 GMT -5
@taxidriver1980 ... I remember the Defenders of the Earth it's comic book and animated series as well. I do remember Galaxy Rangers and Robocop briefly. I watched a few Robocop movies but, barely had the time to read it's comic books.
Defenders of the Earth
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 4:58:18 GMT -5
So, what did the last year of the 1980s bring for us? The Incredible Hulk Presents reprinted four strips. If memory serves me right, initially it was the Hulk, Doctor Who, G.I. Joe and, erm, possibly Indiana Jones (I think). No issues to hand to check. Here's the cover for the 7th issue: Here's Popeye: The Punisher got his own title. Sharing the comic was RoboCop. Later on, The 'Nam took over from RoboCop: And there was a William Tell Summer Special:
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 9, 2019 13:01:30 GMT -5
I would presume that the William Tell one was based on or inspired by the tv series Crossbow, with Will Lyman, from 1987.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 9, 2019 15:49:37 GMT -5
I stopped buying any Marvel UK product in late 1985, when the Star Wars comic (then titled Return of the Jedi Weekly) began to consist of too many reprints, or back-up strips that I didn't like. By the late 80s and early 90s, I'd found a number of places that sold proper American Marvels and DCs anyway, so no longer had a need for UK reprints. The stuff I was buying from UK newsagents was things like Heavy Metal, 2000AD or MAD Magazine.
So, all of these comic titles you're mentioning lately mean nothing to me, I'm afraid.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 17:19:48 GMT -5
So, we're in 1990 now. The Complete Spider-Man arrived. It reprinted the four core Spidey titles ( The Amazing Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man): And then there was Marvel UK's Star Trek: TNG comic. Oddly, they reprinted DC Comics' TNG title. I'm surprised the space-time continuum didn't explode with Marvel UK reprinting a DC title:
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 9, 2019 23:34:20 GMT -5
So, we're in 1990 now. The Complete Spider-Man arrived. It reprinted the four core Spidey titles ( The Amazing Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Web of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man): And then there was Marvel UK's Star Trek: TNG comic. Oddly, they reprinted DC Comics' TNG title. I'm surprised the space-time continuum didn't explode with Marvel UK reprinting a DC title: Technically, it was Paramount's property, so they could do what they liked with it. Foreign reprints are handled far differently than US ones, so it was probably done with little thought. Wouldn't be surprised if the deal was done through the UK offices, rather than through Marvel corporate, in NYC.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 3:48:39 GMT -5
Incidentally, this 1986 UK annual was published by Marvel:
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2019 9:31:59 GMT -5
Incidentally, this 1986 UK annual was published by Marvel: That would be a trickier one. Super Powers was a Kenner trademark; but, it was related to their line of DC figures. DC produced the comic; but, I would bet Kenner had the foreign reprint rights. I would suspect that something like that might have stuck in the craw of DC; but, Warner didn't care, because they made money either way. I suspect they didn't consider Marvel UK to be a competitor. These can get into all kinds of rights issues, depending on contracts. I believe Marvel got into some trouble over reprinting the UK Transformers stories in the US, even though they were Marvel UK stories. Publishing can be a strange world. Using Harry Potter, for example, the US publication rights are held by Scholastic Books. They have their own cover designs and even retitled the first book (they didn't think US audiences would understand that the philosopher's stone was a magic object and would think the book wasa philosophy text and pass it by; probably weren't far off the mark). They hired their own actor for the audio editions (Jim Dale). So, the original UK publisher cannot sell the book in the US, they cannot use the UK covers, and they cannot use the UK audios, with Stephen Fry. Those items do get imported, by third party sellers, though technically they are infringing on Scholastic's rights. At Barnes & Nobel, we could not sell imported editions, if US rights were held by another publisher. There were some nice Babylon 5 references, back when the series was on tv; but, they weren't being published in the US; only the novel series. An independent bookstore, in the same city, imported and sold them, while we had to wait for an official US book (which Warner never published). Thankfully, JMS kept a strong on-line presence and you could find anything you wanted to know, at fan sites.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 10:06:16 GMT -5
That's fascinating. Legalities, eh? Okay, 1991. Captain Planet had a comic: Havoc reprinted some of the more darker Marvel strips. I only had 2 issues, but in addition to Deathlok, Ghost Rider and RoboCop were included. Anyone know what else may have been reprinted? And here's Rupert (for a change, the gift wasn't a badge or sticker, but Plasticine):
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 10, 2019 11:36:59 GMT -5
Britain's favorite bear? Pooh is not happy!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2019 4:19:34 GMT -5
In 1992, Spidey and the X-Men shared a special: This was fun: WCW started a comic (I never saw it on the shelves, although the US originals often showed up). Look at the cover gift: The Exploits of Spider-Man: The Exploits of Spider-Man ran from 1992 to 1995. I think it had around 100 pages. It reprinted core Spidey titles, Spider-Man 2099, classic Lee/Ditko tales - and other stuff, too. I like the format. I won't get ahead of myself too much, but in 1995, it was replaced by Astonishing Spider-Man (still going today), a 76-page title that only had space to reprint 3 US comics - and which was in the smaller US format. Shame.
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